gO CANADIAN FOSE STEY ASSOCIATION. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Hall, in response to a question, said that for putting out fire earth 

 and sand were better than water. You could not expect fire rangers to 

 carry a spray or water wagon, but a wet bag or branches would accomplish 

 the same result. One man working with a pick and shovel would do a 

 great deal. 



The Chairman said that in his experience often the only way to cope 

 with a fire was to make roads through and to use earth. Fires usually 

 occurred in dry seasons, when there was little water obtainable. 



Mr. Robert Connely (Great Salmon River, N.B.) gave an instance 

 where the company of which he is manager had secured a verdict of $6,000 

 from a sportsman, who started a fire which destroyed valuable timber. 



FIRE LAWS AND FIRE PROTECTION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 

 W. R. BROWN, SECRETARY NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTRY COMMISSION. 



I have the honor to present to you an outline of the new fire law passed 

 by the last Legislature in New Hampshire, and the problem of fire protec- 

 tion in general, also to express to the Canadian Forestry Association New 

 Hampshire's hearty co-operation and good wishes in a common endeavor 

 towards a more rational and far-reaching system of conservation, which 

 movement we conceive to be of international benefit through our fast in- 

 creasing mutual interdependence. Conservation as a national policy is 

 much to the fore in Washington to-day, espoused on broad principles of 

 patriotism and intelligent self-interest, and finds expression in a message 

 from the President, a recent conference of Governors, the passage of new 

 Federal and State laws, and conserving policies instituted by corporations 

 and large owners. It is advocated for the protection of mines, water 

 powers, fisheries, natural scenery and game, but the most general and 

 intense interest centers in Forestry, and this is the paramount subject of 

 concern in New Hampshire. With only one-fourth of her territory under 

 cultivation, New Hampshire is particularly concerned in the preservation 

 of a splendid primeval forest, which clothes her granite mountains, miles 

 upon miles in the North, and dots the rolling hills in small wood lots, 

 southward to the sea. At the present moment her Representatives in Con- 

 gress are deeply interested and united in asking for the passage of a bill at 

 Washington, creating an Appalachian Reserve in the White Mountains, to 

 protect her water powers and those of the neighboring States. Her legisla- 

 tors are spending freely to preserve and open up by good roads her won- 

 derful mountain and lake scenery. 



So as a pioneer in the conservation movement, New Hampshire early 

 commenced experiments in practical forestry under such men as Austin 

 Cary, now Assistant Forester in New York; Harry Graves, now Chief 



